Motivational Quotes

Work

It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.

- Cahill, Michael C.

Best Quotes about Work

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

Fromme, Dr. Allan

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.

Tessier, Josephine

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.

Proverb

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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Sir William Osler

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Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

Sinise, Gary

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How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

Camus, Albert

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Ray, John

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

Slick, Grace

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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.

Steve Jobs

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Gibran, Kahlil

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Riley, Pat

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.

Bhagavad Gita

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group.

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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Voltaire

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Johnson, James Weldon

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.

Grotowski, Jerzy

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation --that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno --I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!

Bunuel, Luis